Infrastructure project
Completed
Scientific infrastructure for art-historical monuments in East Central Europe (FoKO)
Duration
2014 - 2017
The transnational consolidation of documentation data and image collections is intended to provide international researchers with a knowledge portal that highlights the diverse interconnections between artistic developments in Eastern Central Europe between 1000 and 1800, as well as the competing references in the history of knowledge. The research infrastructure is intended as a basis for adequately analyzing art monuments and their functions, as well as artistic genres and phenomena, and for understanding them meaningfully in the overall European context. This enables a comparative view of aspects such as the history of style and tradition, cultural transfer, patronage, and the networking of artists and builders.
The content of the project is closely based on the publication project “Handbook on the History of Art in East Central Europe” based at the Humanities Center for History and Culture of East Central Europe (University of Leipzig). To illustrate the handbook, new, standardized image material is being generated as part of the FoKO project through photo campaigns. This project is also linked to the transnational networking of institutions and cooperation in the creation of both “traditional” and digital products in accordance with international standards, and not least to the changing approach to image sources in historical and cultural studies.
Projektpotal FoKO Startseite. Herder-Institut, Abt. Digitale Geschichte und Informationssysteme, Rechte vorbehalten - freier Zugang
The software used was the Scientific Communication Infrastructure (WissKI) system developed by the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and the Chair of Computer Science 8 for Artificial Intelligence at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, with the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (ISO 21127) serving as the semantic backbone. WissKI is used in the project as a database and as a virtual research environment. The data model takes into account the art objects as well as the photographs, which are treated as separate entities and described equally in terms of their objectivity, taking into account their specific nature of technical reproduction. In the data modeling, clear and distinct relationships between photographs and depicted entities were formed using CRM semantic definitions and explanations of terms.
Epitaph of Nicklas Rehdinger † 1587 and his wife Rosina. Stanisław Klimek / Herder-Institut, Rechte vorbehalten - freier Zugang
Another important and topical issue in the project is the interpretation of copyright and usage rights for the image material used and produced, the derivatives, digital content, and metadata, both between the partners and with regard to online publication for general use and the planned transfer of images and metadata to Europeana and the German Digital Library at the end of the project period.
Project partners:
- German Documentation Center for Art History – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg
- Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe at the University of Leipzig (GWZO)
- Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warsaw
- Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Művészettörténeti Intézet, Budapest
+Slovenská akadémia vied, Ústav dejín umenia, Bratislava
Main facade of Kreslau Castle, Latvia. Imants Lancmanis, 1967 / Schlossmuseum Rundāle / Rundāles pils muzejs, Rechte vorbehalten - freier Zugang
